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I'm too sexy for my shirt ... The biggest splash of Republican gov candidate Frank Riggs' campaign wasn't the announcement of his candidacy or the endorsement he snagged from former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum.

What had tongues wagging? His muscular torso. His new statewide ad features him, at times, shirtless and working his biceps and shoulder muscles. And he's got muscles.

"Sure, it's a tough job, and I'm just the guy to do it," Riggs, who is in his early 60s, says in the TV ad, which spawned a couple of spoof videos.

We're betting the ad pumps up his campaign and snags votes than his proposal to roll back Medicaid expansion.

Who's the lucky winner? ... Someone with a lot of time on their hands was the winner of a $250 gift card for enduring a robocall to end all robocalls.

Better Leaders for Arizona, an independent group supporting GOP gov contender Christine Jones, promised those who finished the eight-minute-plus call the chance to win a $250 gift card to Safeway, Cabela's or a gas station of their choice. The "poll" questioned the gun-rights cred of the gov candidates and played up Jones' candidacy.

Fighting Obama, yadda, yadda...Anti-Obama sells as a campaign theme, and Republicans are all over it.

There's Doug Ducey and Jones trying to out-tough each other on the president as they run for governor, and Diane Douglas in the school supe race bashing Common Core. But the Corporation Commission?

A dark-money group backing Corp Comm candidates Tom Forese and Doug Little has put up signs promising to "fight Obama."

Say what? Wouldn't it make more sense to fight for ratepayers, or maybe even fight APS?

At least Little can claim some real-world fighting cred. He is the owner and training of Armed Personal Defense, which teaches marksmanship and gun handling. He also offers training in hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting. So watch out, anyone who would tangle with Little. This guy has had some serious experience, listing training in advanced Kalashnikov-riflle gunfighting and "low-light gunfighting."

Hey, that might come in handy if the power grid goes down.

An embarrassment of riches... It was too difficult to pick just one quote/tweet from this week. So we offer a few of our favorite campaign-related nuggets:

"I was actually able to see some of the children on the buses, and the fear on their faces ...," Republican Congressional candidate Adam Kwasman. He later was told the bus in Oracle was not full of immigrant children but of YMCA campers and responded, "They were sad too."

"I, for one, never trust campers," Comedian Stephen Colbert after airing the video of Kwasman's gaffe on the Colbert Report.

"Conservatives are backing Andrew Thomas for governor because he's the only candidate who has stopped illegal immigration, stood up to the gay lobby and opposed liberal judges." -- TV ad for Republican governor candidate Andrew Thomas.

Reporter:
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez covers the Governor’s Office and state politics with an emphasis on accountability of state officials. She has previously covered Maricopa County, focusing on the years-long infighting that led to a federal grand-jury investigation, as well as Latino Affairs.